Albert Hopkins schrieb:
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But they are wrong ;-)
I'm actually against mixing testing and stable branches. Here's why.
People choose "stable" because they are under the impression that it's
somehow "safer" or "less troublesome" than "testing" (or what some
people call "unstable"). I'm not so sure I agree but that's not my
argument. My argument is when these people go and then try to get the
"best of both worlds" by inter-marrying the branches. From my
experience these people end up with less stable systems than choosing
either "stable" or "testing". The problem is that they are mixing
software that were not tested or intended to run with each other. And
they come into problems even people in the so-called "unstable" branch
don't experience. Recent examples include Xorg and GNOME updates. So
these people, and the majority of them are newbies, come to think Gentoo
is flaky but it's really their behavior.
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Hi,
this for shure is not right, if you are only running few testing
programs. I'd never run ~amd64 just for youtube-dl to be working fine.
kh
